The office is charged with ensuring members of the executive branch follow federal ethics laws and regulations.

In March, Shaub criticized the White House for not properly penalizing White House adviser Kellyanne Conway for encouraging Americans to purchase Ivanka Trump's products during a television interview. In explaining his decision to take on this new role, Shaub explained: "It has become clear to me that we need improvements to the existing ethics program". Shaub did not elaborate further on the problems he had at the OGE, but he did mention wanting greater freedom to pursue reform.

He said Trump's plan to retain financial interests in the Trump Organization while handing over leadership to his adult sons and a senior executive "doesn't meet the standards" of Trump's own Cabinet nominees and four decades of previous presidents.

Shaub's office was founded in the wake of Watergate, and oversees 4,500 employees who work on ethics-related issues across the government.

Shaub's agency is charged with enforcing the often murky ethics laws in the era of Trump. President Barack Obama named him to the post, which requires Senate confirmation, in January 2013 after Shaub had worked in the office for almost a decade. "The President will be nominating a successor in short order". "We can't risk creating the perception that government officials will use their positions for personal profit".

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